The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 1)


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The eighth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes poems of national pride, heroism and the quest for freedom. The collection also includes an introductory essay by American scholar Francis Hovey Stoddard (1847-1936). - Summary by Tomas Peter (5 hr 6 min)

Chapters

The Study of Poetry, by Francis Hovey Stoddard 29:14 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
What Constitutes a State?, by Sir William Jones 2:08 Read by Craig Franklin
Breathes There a Man? From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," Canto VI, by Sir Wal… 1:16 Read by Adrian Stephens
My Country, by James Montgomery 2:44 Read by Sonia
Father Land and Mother Tongue, by Samuel Lover 1:35 Read by Tomas Peter
East, West, Home's Best: From "The Traveller," by Oliver Goldsmith 2:27 Read by Adrian Stephens
Gifts, by Emma Lazarus 2:52 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
England: From "The Timepiece": "The Task," Book II, by William Cowper 2:23 Read by Adrian Stephens
Rule, Britannia: From "Alfred," Act II Scene 5, by James Thomson 2:22 Read by Sonia
The Bowman's Song: From "The White Company," by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1:29 Read by Adrian Stephens
The Roast Beef of Old England, by Henry Fielding, with four added stanzas by Ri… 2:14 Read by Tomas Peter
The Snug Little Island, by Thomas Dibdin 3:21 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
The Jacobite on Tower Hill, by George Walter Thornbury 1:53 Read by Tomas Peter
God Save the King, by Henry Carey 1:46 Read by Craig Franklin
Veteran and Recruit, by Edward Wentworth Hazewell 1:33 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
The Private of the Buffs; or The British Soldier in China, by Sir Francis Hasti… 2:54 Read by Adrian Stephens
The Turk in Armenia: From "The Purple East," by William Watson 1:16 Read by Tomas Peter
Ave Imperatrix, by Oscar Wilde 7:34 Read by Adrian Stephens
America to Great Britain, by Washington Allston 2:16 Read by Craig Franklin
Hands All Round, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 3:33 Read by Adrian Stephens
Recessional, by Rudyard Kipling 1:55 Read by Tomas Peter
England and her Colonies, by William Watson 1:18 Read by Sonia
Scotland: From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott 1:31 Read by Sonia
The Bard: A Pindaric Ode, by Thomas Gray 9:13 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
My Heart's in the Highlands, by Robert Burns 1:27 Read by Adrian Stephens
Heather Ale: A Galloway Legend, by Robert Louis Stevenson 3:58 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
The Execution of Montrose, by William Edmondstoune Ayton 10:53 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Border Ballad, by Sir Walter Scott 1:16 Read by Craig Franklin
The Exile's Song, by Robert Gilfillan 1:43 Read by Tomas Peter
The Irishman, by James Orr 2:28 Read by Sonia
Turlough MacSweeney, by Anna MacManus (Ethna Carbery) 2:39 Read by Craig Franklin
A Spinning Song, by John Francis O'Donnell 1:54 Read by Sonia
The Wearing of the Green, by Anonymous 2:16 Read by Adrian Stephens
My Native Land, by John Boyle O'Reilly 2:20 Read by Tomas Peter
Bless the Dear Old Verdant Land, by Denis Florence MacCarthy 2:50 Read by Craig Franklin
Ireland (1847), by Denis Florence MacCarthy 4:36 Read by Sonia
Ireland: A Seaside Portrait, by John James Piatt 1:39 Read by Sonia
Exile of Erin, by Thomas Campbell 3:13 Read by Adrian Stephens
After Death, by Frances Isabel Parnell 1:50 Read by Craig Franklin
Canada Not Last, by William Douw Schuyler-Lighthall 3:08 Read by Tomas Peter
Canada, by Charles G. D. Roberts 3:08 Read by Tomas Peter
What is the German's Fatherland?, from the German of Ernst Moritz Arndt 3:14 Read by Adrian Stephens
Patriotic Song, from the German of Ernst Moritz Arndt 2:20 Read by Craig Franklin
Men and Boys, from the German of Karl Theodor Körner, translation of Charles Ti… 3:53 Read by Sonia
The Watch on the Rhine, from the German of Max Schneckenburger 2:04 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Proem: From "The Kalevala" (Land of Heroes), the National Epic of Finland, from… 5:27 Read by Sonia
Parting Lovers, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 4:06 Read by Sonia
America, by William Cullen Bryant 2:35 Read by Craig Franklin
Columbia, by Timothy Dwight 3:26 Read by Tomas Peter
On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America, by Bishop George Berk… 1:56 Read by Sonia
England to America, by Sydney Dobell 1:20 Read by Adrian Stephens
Our State, by John Greenleaf Whittier 1:54 Read by Craig Franklin
The Republic: From "The Building of the Ship," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1:31 Read by Tomas Peter
America (1832), by Samuel Francis Smith 2:25 Read by Adrian Stephens
"Old Ironsides," by Oliver Wendell Holmes 1:33 Read by Sonia
Men of the North and West (April, 1861), by Richard Henry Stoddard 1:32 Read by Tomas Peter
Our Country's Call (1861), by William Cullen Bryant 3:14 Read by Craig Franklin
A Cry to Arms (1861), by Henry Timrod 2:35 Read by Sonia
The Nation's Prayer (1861), by Crammond Kennedy 1:46 Read by Adrian Stephens
My Maryland (1861), by James Ryder Randall 3:13 Read by Tomas Peter
Dixie (1861), by Albert Pike 2:40 Read by Craig Franklin
The Flag Goes By, by Henry Holcomb Bennett 1:35 Read by Tomas Peter
The Brave at Home, by Thomas Buchanan Read 1:38 Read by Sonia
The Place Where Man Should Die, by Michael Joseph Barry 2:10 Read by Adrian Stephens
Liberty, by John Hay 2:00 Read by Tomas Peter
Patience: From "Poems of Freedom," by William James Linton 1:55 Read by Sonia
The Antiquity of Freedom, by William Cullen Bryant 4:30 Read by Craig Franklin
Hallowed Ground, by Thomas Campbell 4:49 Read by Adrian Stephens
The Wolf and the Dog, from the French of Jean de la Fontaine, translation of El… 3:15 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Rienzi to the Romans: From "Rienzi," by Mary Russell Mitford 3:23 Read by Tomas Peter
Fallen Greece: From "The Giaour," by Lord Byron 2:47 Read by Craig Franklin
Greece Enslaved: From "Childe Harold," Canto II, by Lord Byron 4:51 Read by Tomas Peter
Song of the Greek Poet: From "Don Juan," Canto III, by Lord Byron 5:31 Read by Adrian Stephens
To Althea from Prison, by Richard Lovelace 1:42 Read by Craig Franklin
Slavery: From "The Timepiece": "The Task," Book II, by William Cowper 2:51 Read by Tomas Peter
Song of the Western Men, by Robert Stephen Hawker 2:26 Read by Craig Franklin
The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls, by Thomas Moore 1:18 Read by Sonia
As by the Shore at Break of Day, by Thomas Moore 0:59 Read by Adrian Stephens
The Hills Were Made for Freedom, by William Goldsmith Brown 1:08 Read by Craig Franklin
Switzerland: From "William Tell," by James Sheridan Knowles 1:17 Read by Tomas Peter
Make Way for Liberty (Battle of Sempach, fourteenth century), by James Montgome… 5:24 Read by Adrian Stephens
Poland: From "The Pleasures of Hope," Part I, by Thomas Campbell 2:49 Read by Sonia
The Marseillaise, from the French of Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle 3:23 Read by Sonia
A Court Lady, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 4:53 Read by Sonia
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England, by Felicia Hemans 2:01 Read by Tomas Peter
The American Flag, by Joseph Rodman Drake 3:18 Read by Craig Franklin
The Star-Spangled Banner, by Francis Scott Key 3:06 Read by Adrian Stephens
New England's Dead, by Isaac M'Lellan 2:33 Read by Sonia
The Reformer, by John Greenleaf Whittier 4:42 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Freedom of the Mind: Written while in Prison for Denouncing the Domestic Slave-… 1:33 Read by Sonia
The Present Crisis, by James Russell Lowell 7:53 Read by Craig Franklin
The Little Cloud (1853), by John Howard Bryant 2:22 Read by Adrian Stephens
Brown of Ossawatomie, by John Greenleaf Whittier 2:21 Read by Craig Franklin
Words for the "Hallelujah Chorus," by Henry Howard Brownell 2:33 Read by Tomas Peter
Battle-Hymn of the Republic, by Julia Ward Howe 3:13 Read by Sonia
John Charles Frémont, by John Greenleaf Whittier 2:19 Read by Craig Franklin
Heroes, by Edna Dean Proctor 2:40 Read by Tomas Peter
Laus Deo!, by John Greenleaf Whittier 2:45 Read by Tomas Peter
A Holy Nation, by Richard Realf 1:31 Read by Sonia